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Identification and Creation

Object Number
H120
People
Hubert von Herkomer, British (Waal, Germany 1849 - 1914 Budleigh Salterton, England)
Gordon McKay (1821 - 1903)
Title
Gordon McKay (1821-1903)
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
1895
Culture
British
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/310817

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
140.5 x 109.8 cm (55 5/16 x 43 1/4 in.)
framed: 154.94 x 124.46 cm (61 x 49 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: u.r. Hubert Herkomer, R.A.; l.l. HH '95
  • inscription: front, signed, in artist's hand: Painted in/my studio in Bushy. Hants (or Herts?)/(six sittings) in which/time I learnt to know one of the/truest men I ever came across. Hubert Herkomer, R.A.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard University Portrait Collection, Gift to the University
Object Number
H120
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Laura M. Huntsinger, Harvard Portraits: A Catalogue of Portrait Paintings at Harvard University, ed. Alan Burroughs, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1936), p. 96
  • John Chamberlain, "History of American Business", Fortune [magazine] (1961), p. 149
  • Jeffrey D. Wert, Civil War Barons: The Tycoons, Entrepreneurs, Inventors, and Visionaries Who Forged Victory and Shaped a Nation, Da Capo Press (New York, 2018), repr.

Verification Level

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